What contributed most to the fall of the Soviet Union?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Exactly! We are seeing the same thing happenning to us!

While the Fat Cats who control the oversight, live in the PentHouse, they make laws to milk the average worker! Take a look at Rangel, Dodd, Shmucky Shumer, Nancy the vampire Pelosi, Harry the "Real Estate Mogul" Reid, and others.

The rules don't apply to them, yet they are the one's writing the rules!

I rest my case!

The sort of routine and venal corruption one encounters outside the industrialized world, like mordita in Mexico ('tipping' any civil servant to perform his or her duty function for you), is a long way from anything going on in the US (outside places like Chicago where it is involved in any transactions for 'real' money, and a couple of large Northeastern cities where it has never been completely eradicated despite a century of reformers).  However, we are on the verge of the Democrats corrupting the entire political process by publicly funding their own base so lavishly that it cannot but have an effect, which will ultimately turn the US into a giant version of Chicago if it goes unchecked.   

[AllosaursRus]

The sort of routine and venal corruption one encounters outside the industrialized world, like mordita in Mexico ('tipping' any civil servant to perform his or her duty function for you), is a long way from anything going on in the US (outside places like Chicago where it is involved in any transactions for 'real' money, and a couple of large Northeastern cities where it has never been completely eradicated despite a century of reformers).  However, we are on the verge of the Democrats corrupting the entire political process by publicly funding their own base so lavishly that it cannot but have an effect, which will ultimately turn the US into a giant version of Chicago if it goes unchecked.   

I believe that is exactly what he wants! If they can perform this ritual, they will be in power for the near future without opposition!